British Columbia
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Whistler

Whistler

Whistler is a resort community near in . Boasting the largest ski area in North America, Whistler is a popular winter skiing and outdoor sports destination.
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  • Type: Town with 9,820 residents
  • Description: town in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Resort Municipality of Whistler”, “Whistler Village”, “Whistler, BC”, and “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Postal codes: V0N and V8E

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whistler Sliding Centre and Audain Art Museum.

Sports venue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a Canadian bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Whistler, British Columbia, that is 125 km north of .

Museum
The is a 56,000-square-foot private museum located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, that houses the private art collection of Michael Audain.

Aerodrome
Whistler/Green Lake Water Aerodrome is located on adjacent to Whistler, in , . It offers glacier tours, twice daily scheduled service between , Vancouver International Water Airport and , and custom charter services, with float equipped DHC-3 Turbine Otter and DHC-2 Beaver aircraft.

Whistler

Latitude
50.1172° or 50° 7′ 2″ north
Longitude
-122.9543° or 122° 57′ 16″ west
Population
9,820
Elevation
673 metres (2,208 feet)
IATA airport code
YWS
United Nations Location Code
CA YWS
Open location code
942V428W+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 268148288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6180144
Wiki­data ID
Q203122
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Whistler” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Whistler, Brits-Columbië”
  • Afrikaans: “Whistler”
  • Albanian: “Whistler”
  • Arabic: “ويستلر، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “ويسلر، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “ويسلر”
  • Asturian: “Whistler”
  • Bulgarian: “Уислър”
  • Bulgarian: “Уистлър”
  • Catalan: “Whistler”
  • Cebuano: “Whistler”
  • Chinese: “威士拿”
  • Chinese: “威斯勒”
  • Chinese: “惠斯勒”
  • Croatian: “Whistler, Britanska Kolumbija”
  • Czech: “Whistler”
  • Danish: “Whistler”
  • Dutch: “Whistler”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويستلر”
  • Esperanto: “Whistler”
  • Estonian: “Whistler”
  • Finnish: “Whistler”
  • French: “Whistler”
  • German: “Whistler”
  • Greek: “Γουίσλερ (Βρετανική Κολομβία)”
  • Greek: “Γουίσλερ”
  • Italian: “Whistler blackcomb”
  • Italian: “Whistler Mountain”
  • Italian: “Whistler”
  • Japanese: “ウィスラー”
  • Korean: “휘슬러”
  • Latvian: “Vistlera”
  • Latvian: “Whistler”
  • Lithuanian: “Vistleris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whistler”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whistler i British Columbia”
  • Norwegian: “Whistler”
  • Ossetian: “Уистлер”
  • Persian: “ویسلر، بریتیش کلمبیا”
  • Polish: “Whistler”
  • Portuguese: “Whistler”
  • Romanian: “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Russian: “Уистлер”
  • Serbian: “Visler”
  • Serbian: “Whistler”
  • Serbian: “Вислер”
  • Serbian: “Вистлер”
  • Slovak: “Whistler”
  • Spanish: “Whistler (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “Whistler”
  • Swedish: “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Whistler”
  • Tagalog: “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Ukrainian: “Вістлер”
  • Welsh: “Whistler, British Columbia”
  • Welsh: “Whistler”
  • Yue Chinese: “威士拿”

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